The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-03-12
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PARIS is said to consume nearly fifty tons
OF snails in season.
EVERY possible color and shade can now
20 got from aniline dyes.
THERE Is Q machine out for making fin.
ger.nails almond-shaped.
THERE are 100000 tuberoses on one
plantation at San Mateo Fla.
BoYs undcr sixteen years Of age can not
buy tobacco at Grass Valley, Cal.
ANOTHER Washington monument is pro-
posed, to be paid for by the nation.
BuCKwHEAT cakes, to be fashionable,
should not be larger than a trade dollar.
The Senate passed fifty-seven pension
bills in twenty-five minutes, the other
day.
A FLORIDA MOTHER has two children, one
named Jefferson Davis, the other Abraham
Lincoln.
JULIA TAYLOR, colored, expired few
days ago in 81. Louis, at the great age Of
Ill years.
"Home for Drunken and Depraved
Women" is philanthropic enterprise now
under consideration in St. Louis.
A MACHINE has been invented that prints
the sides and ends of boxes at the same
time at the rate of 1850 per hour.
New YORK Italians are trying to secure
site in Central Park, near the bust Of
Mezzini, for statue Of Garibaldi.
ALEXANDER B. COKE, JR., of New York
is said to be the biggest man at Yale, his
weight being given as 341 pounds
MRS. STEPHEN B. ELKINs recently pre-
sented library consisting of 800 worth of
books to the town of Davis, w. Va.
SECRETARY LAMONT gets the handsome
salary of $1,000, President Cleveland pay
ing him $500 out of his own pocket.
The value Of manufactured articles
in this country surpasses the value of
those made in Great Britain by more than
s70O,OOO,OOO.
1T being tolerably certain that the world
Is not to come to an end before the year
1000, New York may yet have Grant
monument.
In regard to the present situation in
Europe General Wolseley says; IA vast
and appalling war is certainty in the
near future"
THE latest distinguished lady who thinks
of becoming an actress is Ethel Chase, the
daughter Of Ex-Governor Sprague, Of
Rhode Island.
A NEBRASKA man who recently died at
the age of 102, was shipwrecked many
years ago and swan nine miles with wo-
man on his back.
THERE have been just admitted to the
poor-house of Beaver County, Pa, man
and his wife and five children, three of
whom were triplets.
es ANEW pocket Gamers has been invented.
1t is enclosed in an ordinary silver watch
case, and is said to do very good work by
the dry-plate process.
CAPTAIN ROBERT W. ANDREWS, of Boston,
who is in his ninety-seventh year, wants
to challenge any man of his age to match
at walking or jumping.
JUNE 81 has been decided upon as the
date for national celebration of the
Queens Jubilee day in England, and it
will be declared holiday.
Mrs. KATE CHASE is making arrange
ments for the publication of the biography
OF her father, the late Chief Justice, which
she has undertaken to write.
PAoLA, KAN, has natural gas spouter
that blew plumber into the roof of a
derrick, nearly killing him. He was test
ing the pressure and found out.
TENNEssEE's Senate has rejected bill
appropriating 1880 for monument to
George Peabody, through whose ~benev-
olence the State was great gamer.
BoTH Carl Schurz and Ben Butler are
suffering from severe falls on the side
walk, the former having slipped in New
York and the latter in Philadelphia.
EX-GOVERNOR CURTIN was recently called
upon by soldiers widow, for whom he
had secured a pension and given half
dozen kisses in public for the assistance he
had rendered.
ARGENT wager between two Viennese
elected the fact that, for the completion Of
awinter overcoat, "less than 40 600 stitches"
are required, viz. 1858, which is a pretty
good guess after ALL
JOHN Pencil, of Jackson, NO., purchased
coffins for himself and wife ten years ago.
which he keeps in the upper story of his
house. The old man frequently gets into
his to see how it fits.
MRS. CLEVELAND probably receives the
most letters of any woman in the United
States, and Mrs. Jenness Miller, the leader
OF the dress reform movement, is said TO
have the next largest post.
A FARMER of Otter Tail County, who Wis.
tied the Minnesota Legislature recently,
made but one remark during his stay,
and that was this: "By gosh! I'm a
statesman myself alongside Of these fel-
lows"
THERE is a cat doctor, who runs drug
store in Washington, who is doing thriv.
ing business by alleviating the ills of the
feline and canine races. He has the high
est class of callers of any professional man
in the city.
RICHARD PENNIsTAN, actor, has just been
admitted to the Forrest Home in Philadel.
phia. In 1873 Pennistan drew $500 200 in
the Royal Havana Lottery, but his good
luck was his ruin, and for a number of
years he has been penniless
SAM JONES says: 'If / wanted to get
good, square judgment on something I
had done had rather go to newspaper Of
nee for it than any other court of Justice. I
know the justice Of journals, their integ.
rity and the purity of their motiyes.n
NOSE GIBSON, negro, eighty seven
years old, walks to Washington. Ga and
back daily, distance of eight miles, car
rying the mail for the family that owned
him before the war, thus earning board